RDB Catch and Effort Overview Baltic
RCG ISSG Regional overviews
09 September, 2022
Disclaimer
The tables and figures of the overviews presented in this document are made for the coordination of EU regional fisheries data collection purposes and are not designed for any other use. Data used for producing the outputs are extracted from the Regional Database (RDB) and EU Fleet Register. Dates of data extractions are stated in Appendix A. Due to different aggregations and reporting authorities, data can differ from those used e.g. for assessments or technical reports. Member States (MS) are responsible for uploading latest data and the latest year should be viewed as provisional. Data can be resubmitted by a MS for more than one previous year so there might be differences in earlier year reports, if countries update back in time. Responsibility for the quality of the data and comparability to other data sources lies with the MS that provided these data. The upload logs presented by MS regarding the data submitted to RDB can be found in the ISSG Data Quality report.
The respective scripts and calculations used for data displaying are publicly available via the RCG GitHub (https://github.com/ices-eg/RCGs) and subject to change as the work of the group progresses.
RCG Multiannual overviews - Net fisheries (GNS, GTR)
The present Catch and Effort Overview displays summary information on EU commercial landings (CL) and fishing effort (CE) statistics included in the Regional Data Base (RDB), which is used to store detailed commercial fisheries and sampling data. Only the gillneter fishery has been considered in this report, including GNS, GTR and GND
Overall fleet evolution
The tables included in this section present a summary of the information on licensed vessels from the European Union Fleet Register in the period 2016-2021.
Number of vessels
Table 1. Number of vessels with fishing license, by flag country in the EU vessel register.
rowname | BEL | DEU | DNK | ESP | EST | FIN | FRA | IRL | LTU | LVA | NLD | POL | PRT | SWE |
2016 | 3 | 1,093 | 1,827 | 6,646 | 1,015 | 1,902 | 1,869 | 235 | 103 | 225 | 116 | 570 | 2,136 | 452 |
2017 | 3 | 1,066 | 1,761 | 6,594 | 1,041 | 2,203 | 1,843 | 244 | 105 | 183 | 121 | 544 | 2,026 | 433 |
2018 | 2 | 1,039 | 1,715 | 6,483 | 1,084 | 2,305 | 1,761 | 249 | 109 | 180 | 113 | 536 | 2,092 | 424 |
2019 | 2 | 995 | 1,646 | 6,365 | 1,139 | 2,330 | 1,715 | 271 | 109 | 165 | 105 | 530 | 2,045 | 400 |
2020 | 2 | 971 | 1,616 | 6,308 | 1,081 | 2,296 | 1,631 | 286 | 109 | 168 | 102 | 527 | 2,148 | 352 |
2021 | 2 | 955 | 1,564 | 6,284 | 970 | 2,258 | 1,631 | 306 | 110 | 94 | 102 | 520 | 2,242 | 332 |
Power
Table 2. Power (1000*kW) of the vessels
with fishing license, by flag country in the EU vessel register.
rowname | BEL | DEU | DNK | ESP | EST | FIN | FRA | IRL | LTU | LVA | NLD | POL | PRT | SWE |
2016 | 1.3 | 28.6 | 68.6 | 184.7 | 13.5 | 85.4 | 191.0 | 11.8 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 8.2 | 24.2 | 84.3 | 29.6 |
2017 | 1.3 | 28.5 | 66.1 | 183.6 | 13.4 | 94.8 | 189.7 | 11.9 | 3.4 | 2.0 | 8.7 | 21.3 | 81.9 | 27.4 |
2018 | 0.4 | 27.6 | 64.0 | 182.6 | 13.8 | 98.7 | 182.4 | 12.4 | 3.6 | 1.8 | 7.9 | 21.1 | 84.2 | 27.6 |
2019 | 0.4 | 26.8 | 62.3 | 180.5 | 13.9 | 100.4 | 182.4 | 12.7 | 3.7 | 1.8 | 7.0 | 21.0 | 83.1 | 26.9 |
2020 | 0.4 | 26.2 | 62.2 | 179.7 | 13.1 | 99.4 | 179.4 | 13.5 | 3.7 | 1.7 | 6.7 | 20.9 | 89.1 | 24.1 |
2021 | 0.4 | 26.1 | 60.0 | 179.3 | 11.3 | 96.8 | 180.8 | 14.0 | 3.9 | 0.8 | 6.7 | 20.8 | 92.7 | 22.8 |
Gross tonnage
Table 3. Gross Tonnage (1000*GT) of the
vessels with fishing license, by flag country in the EU vessel
register.
rowname | BEL | DEU | DNK | ESP | EST | FIN | FRA | IRL | LTU | LVA | NLD | POL | PRT | SWE |
2016 | 0.2 | 3.2 | 9.4 | 25.1 | 1.3 | 4.6 | 17.6 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 4.1 | 10.6 | 2.5 |
2017 | 0.2 | 3.2 | 8.9 | 24.8 | 1.3 | 5.1 | 17.1 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 10.3 | 2.2 |
2018 | 0.1 | 3.1 | 8.7 | 24.7 | 1.3 | 5.3 | 16.5 | 3.0 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 10.5 | 2.2 |
2019 | 0.1 | 3.0 | 8.4 | 24.3 | 1.3 | 5.4 | 16.9 | 2.8 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 10.1 | 2.1 |
2020 | 0.1 | 2.9 | 8.6 | 24.2 | 1.3 | 5.3 | 17.2 | 3.1 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 10.6 | 1.8 |
2021 | 0.1 | 2.9 | 7.9 | 24.2 | 1.1 | 5.1 | 17.3 | 3.2 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 3.2 | 10.8 | 1.7 |
RDB information for EU countries
The figures below are based on RDB effort (CE) and landings (CL) data.
Effort
The annual fishing effort in number of days at sea for the Baltic region, is presented in the interactive figures below. Since this is not a mandatory field in the reported CE data, there is some missing information for some countries/years (see Table 4). The first panel (‘Days at sea Total fisheries’) compiles the annual total fishing effort by flag country. The following panels present the annual fishing effort by flag country for the different vessel length categories
Table 4. Summary of the missing information on the days at sea reported by country and year.
rowname |
Year |
FlagCountry |
%missingRecords (DaysAtSea) |
Days at sea - Total
Days at sea - per vessel length category
Landings
The annual landings overview for the Baltic region, is presented in the interactive figures below. The first panel (‘Landings Total fisheries’) compiles the annual total landings by flag country. The following panels present the annual total landings from the different fisheries by flag country, for the different vessel length categories
Landings Total
Landings - - per vessel length category
Appendix B. Glossary for the country codes
| Name | Code |
|---|---|
| Estonia | EST |
| Denmark | DNK |
| Finland | FIN |
| Germany | DEU |
| Faroe Islands | FRO |
| Latvia | LVA |
| Lithuania | LTU |
| Netherlands | NLD |
| Poland | POL |
| Sweden | SWE |
| United Kingdom | GBR |
| Norway | NOR |